PROMULGATION OF L. ALAVERDYAN ENVISAGED THE POINT OF RESIGNATION

Panorama.am
18:22 16/03/06

First Defender of Human Rights Larissa Alaverdyan still considers
herself Defender as she hasn’t yet received the order of President
Kocharyan to stop her activity in that position.

In order to find out this misunderstanding we turned to a lawyer
well aware of the developments. The latter commented referring to the
“Law About Human Rights Defender”: “It is determined by the law that
the commissions of the first defender end on the 30th day after the
Constitutional Amendments come into force.

And that day was January 5. Yet when the President promulgated the
first Defender he mentioned “to appoint till the official end of
commission”. Thus, the resignation of her commission was envisaged. And
in this concern it is not a complex legal case, as well as there in
no need of new promulgation by the President.”